ABSTRACT
Special attention to interfaces is imperative when engineering micro-and nanotechnology (MNT) systems. At the microand nanoscale, minute changes in processing procedures have large effects on nanomaterial structure and properties. As a result, working at the micro-and nanoscale sizes dictates that the interactions between components are difficult to predict reliably. In order to solve this problem from a systems engineering point of view, MNT interfaces must be accounted for during all phases of the design, development, and implementation process.
